Incedents Blog #1

These chapters are very interesting to me. First, with all the events that happen Jacobs shows very little emotion for things that some one today would write pages and pages about.  When she is not allowed to marry the man who proposed to her she shows a little emotion at first but later after she is confronted by her master on the subject she shows no great effect. " If you must have a husband, you make take up with one of my slaves.' What a situation I should be in, as the wife of one of slaves, even if my heart had been interested"(38). The master doesn't even consider her proposal to let the man to buy her. Another interesting thing is that her mistress despised her so much that she asked her about Jacobs and her husband. Jacobs promises to tell her the truth and the mistress protects her for a little but then turns on her like a pit-bull. "She changed her tactics. She now tried the trick of accusing my master of crime, in my presence, and gave my name  as the author of the accusation"(33). Before I heard this I thought that Jacobs could use her mistress for a little safety but I realized that her mistress was not trying to help her at all. This was a very interesting reading but I do have one question for Jacobs, why did you not run away when your master was abusing you and set yourself free from those things, why did you put up with it?